What happens when a program attempts to access I/O ports from programs
running in a DOS VPC?
From the info I've read you can't access any real Hardware boards in the PC
(besides the COM, LPT or NIC) but will VPC complain about the access or just

Is there a way to lock all or a subset of the VPC settings? I use VPC for
teaching purposes and would like a way to prevent students from changing the
settings in the VMC file.
Thanks,

Can you run a mac operating system using vitual pc for windows?
Can this be done?
If so how?

I just spent the last four hours to get my virtual machine (VM) to connect
to the Internet.
I run Windows XP SP2 within Windows XP SP2.
I have network settings for one adapter set to Shared Networking. The Local

I  am attempting to use  my Nokia phone as an external modem when away from
home. I have Virtual PC 7.02 running on  10.4.2 with Windows XP SP2 running
on VPC.  Downloaded the latest version of Nokia PC Suite, purchased sepcial
cable and also had latest Nokia software upgrade for ...

I've installed Virtual PC 2004 with and without SP1.
I've installed Virtual Machine Additions.
All the virtual machine I've works right, but none accepts caracters like @
or \.

Is there any way for a guest operating system to use a VPN established with
the host operating system.  For example - Would it be possible to create a
VPN in Windows XP and use that VPN to send data from an OS/2 guest.

I work within the publishing department of a large organisation (500 people)
producing multimedia CD-ROMs, internal and external web sites using many
Microsoft/Macromedia/Adobe and other products to do so.
In their wisdom our IT department are trying to standardise all computers

I tried copying the .vhd and .vmc of a baseline vpc i created to a new
folder. Then i renamed the .vhd and mass replaced all references in the .vmc.
No matter what i do when i try to add the newly copied and renamed vpc i get
the following error :

Does anybody know if Microsoft will release a Service Pack for VPC that
allows it to support Widescreen Resolutions, for example, 1680 X 1050 and
1920 X 1200.
I understand it can't do this due to the video adapter that it emulates but

Is it possible in someway to have a physical LAN card that will be used by a
VM, but will not have any connection to the host OS ? I need to connect a VM
to a different network trunk than the host OS, and I don't want the host OS
to be able to use this network trunk (nor to be seen ...

Anyone know how to load MS-DOS 6.22 on a virtual hard disk without using a
bootable floppy disk?  Any such thing as a bootable MS-DOS CD?

We are using VPC for our BizTalk Dev Environment.  The VPC is running Windows
Server 2003.  
VPN (Nortel) is used on the host machine to connect to our network remotely.
What is the best way to set up the VPC so that it can view/access the same

I am trying to figure out whether a scenario is possible: My host PC is Windows
XP SP2 and is on a corporate intranet.  I am using Virtual PC 2004 SP1, and have
successfully set up my guest VM's using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter so that
(1) the guest VM's are completely isolated ...

I recently installed VPC on one of my PCs and had it connected to my network
and working fine. I then took a copy of the VPC and restored it on another
machine on the network. I then assigned it a new computer name and released
and renewed the IP address.